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Klappentext This book describes work! largely that of the author! on the characterization of closed 4-manifolds in terms of familiar invariants such as Euler characteristic! fundamental group! and Stiefel Whitney classes. Using techniques from homological group theory! the theory of 3-manifolds and topological surgery! infrasolvmanifolds are characterized up to homeomorphism! and surface bundles are characterized up to simple homotopy equivalence. Non-orientable cases are also considered wherever possible! and in the final chapter the results obtained earlier are applied to 2-knots and complex analytic surfaces. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in low-dimensional topology. Zusammenfassung This book describes work, largely that of the author, on the characterization of closed 4-manifolds in terms of familiar invariants such as Euler characteristic, fundamental group, and Stiefel–Whitney classes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Algebraic preliminaries; 2. General results on the homotopy type of 4-manifolds; 3. Mapping tori and circle bundles; 4. Surface bundles; 5. Simple homotopy type, s-cobordism and homeomorphism; 6. Aspherical geometries; 7. Manifolds covered by S2 x R2; 8. Manifolds covered by S3 x R; 9. Geometries with compact models; 10. Applications to 2-knots and complex surfaces; Appendix; Problems; References; Index.
